Regulating a particular form of migration at the European level: the Council of Europe and intercountry adoptions (1950-1967)

International audienceIt is a question of returning to the origins of "intercountry adoptions" and studying how this nascent transnational social phenomenon was seen from the beginning as a particular type of migration which necessitated regulation at the international level. Europe found itself at the centre of the first movements - with the children's home countries and their host countries - how did the Council of Europe, institution created in 1949, take hold of this question and how did it contribute to regulating the phenomenon?